The Second Apocalypse

Miscellaneous Chatter => General Misc. => Topic started by: Wilshire on June 13, 2014, 03:55:49 pm

Title: Tesla Motors: All our patents are belong to you
Post by: Wilshire on June 13, 2014, 03:55:49 pm

http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you

Tesla promises not to enforce their own patents.

This news, combined with this cartoon:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s

Make me want to one of these things..

Title: Re: Tesla Motors: All our patents are belong to you
Post by: locke on June 13, 2014, 10:52:27 pm

Damn. I just bought a Leaf.

Title: Re: Tesla Motors: All our patents are belong to you
Post by: Garet Jax on June 13, 2014, 11:14:05 pm

Sounds like a good program.

Title: Re: Tesla Motors: All our patents are belong to you
Post by: Madness on June 21, 2014, 01:54:15 pm

I thought that comic strip was hilarious. What a great argument... I WANT SOLAR ROADWAYS AND ELECTRIC CARS, DAMNIT!

Title: Re: Tesla Motors: All our patents are belong to you
Post by: Wilshire on June 23, 2014, 01:08:22 pm

The Oatmeal is hilarious most of the time. Love that site.

Title: Re: Tesla Motors: All our patents are belong to you
Post by: Wilshire on July 22, 2014, 07:49:40 pm

Planning to make a new car thats about $35k, hoping to release in 2017.
http://www.cnet.com/news/tesla-gets-sporty-with-a-new-electric-car-the-model-3/

Also, they plan to have 98% coverage of the US with their supercharger stations by the end of 2015 (probably so that they can get more people to buy their 2017 model)
http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
scroll to the map and move slider to 2015.


a month later

Quote from: locke on June 13, 2014, 10:52:27 pm

Damn. I just bought a Leaf.

how do you like it?